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SOURCE OF DATA: The NHIS is a multistage probability sample survey conducted annually by interviewers of the U.S. Census Bureau for the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and is representative of the civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. population. Data are collected during face-to-face interviews with adults present at the time of the interview. Also, the self-reported health information for adults in this report was obtained from one randomly selected adult per family.

HIGHLIGHTS: In 1998, 65% of adults 18 years of age and over reported excellent or very good health. However, 17% of adults less than 65 years of age had no health insurance coverage, and 14% of adults did not have a usual place of medical care. Twelve percent of adults had ever been told by a doctor or health professional that they had heart disease and 19% had been told on two or more visits that they had hypertension. Nearly a quarter of adults were current smokers, and 23% were former smokers. Sixty percent did not engage in any leisure-time vigorous physical activity, and based on estimates of body mass index, 35% were overweight and 20% were obese.

In the third decade of the Healthy People initiative, Healthy People 2010 continued to provide a framework to improve the nation’s health by identifying overarching goals and objectives around which the public, private organizations, and citizens a...

"The Healthy People 2010 Final Review presents a quantitative end-of-decade assessment of progress in achieving the Healthy People 2010 objectives and goals over the course of the decade. This report was compiled by the National Center for Health Sta...

United States. Interagency Board on Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research.. National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.).

Published:

April 2000

Series:

DHHS publication, no. (PHS) 00-1255

Description:

Descriptive summary of current nutrition monitoring activities sponsored by various Federal agencies. Arranged under six sections, according to the categorized monitoring activities. Entries give such information as agency, target population, and con...

United States. Interagency Board on Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research.. National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.).

Published:

October 1998

Series:

DHHS publication, no. (PHS) 99-1255

Description:

Nutrition monitoring in the United States is a complex system of coordinated activities that provides information about the dietary, nutritional, and related health status of Americans; the relationships between diet and health; and the factors affec...

Monitoring the health of the American people is an essential step in making sound health policy and setting research and program priorities. In a Chartbook and detailed tables, Health, United States provides an annual picture of the health of the ent...